By Cuellar of Webb                                    H.B. No. 3168
       74R3940 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain jury panels in Webb County.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 25.2422, Government Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:
    1-6        (k)  A meeting of district judges in Webb County held under
    1-7  Section 62.016(a) to determine the number of prospective jurors
    1-8  that are necessary for each week of the year may include the county
    1-9  court at law judges.  The judges may designate a county court at
   1-10  law judge to be the judge to whom the general jury panels report
   1-11  for jury service under Section 62.016(c).
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.